Business Administration - Financial Planning RFC230 Lecture 6: 5 and 6 – 4 Selecting and Analyzing Alternative Investments

• School: Seneca College
• Department: Business Administration - Financial Planning
• Course: Business Administration - Financial Planning RFC230
• Professor: marysavona

Document Summary

5 and 6 4 selecting and analyzing alternative. Investments: hedge fund strategies, traditional strategies, 1, relative. Short bias: 4, directional (long-only, low, market. Exposure: high, high, low, volatility, high, high, high, probability of, low, low. Returns: our(cid:272)e: c i, (cid:862)adva(cid:374)(cid:272)ed retire(cid:373)e(cid:374)t ma(cid:374)age(cid:373)e(cid:374)t trategies(cid:863), (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)(cid:1006, blackrock: https://www. blackrock. com/au/intermediaries/adviser- centre/absolute-return-strategies, definition of "relative-value funds, a hedge fund that seeks to exploit differences in the price or rate of the same or similar securities. The relative value fund trades on gaps, rather than the price of a specific security alone. Dire(cid:272)tio(cid:374)al tradi(cid:374)g (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:373)ea(cid:374) a basic strategy of going long if the market or security is perceived as heading higher, or taking short positions if the direction is downward. However, the term is more widely used in connection with options trading, since a number of strategies can be used to capitalize on a move higher or lower in the broad market or a particular stock.